![]() He has also become a real estate magnate. He owns a tour bus company His emerging Chamillitary Entertainment label has a talented roster: rappers Famous AKA Lil Ken and Yung Ro, and R&B act Tony Henry. His Houston based Fly Rydes car shop which he co-owns with his business partner Ernest designs, rents, and sells cars to corporations and high net worth individuals. That’s my formula for everything.” It’s a formula that enabled The Sound of Revenge to sell more than 1.5 million copies and set Chamillionaire up as a successful businessman. Every step of the way he learned and studied how to become successful in the music business: how to make sure you got paid for your work, how to treat DJs, how to interact with fans, and how to deal with fame.Īll you can do is get into the studio and put 110 percent into making the best music you can, and then you go out into the marketplace and push it 110 percent. ![]() People would bootleg them, download and burn them.” Chamillionaire poured his energy into rapping, connected with the Swishahouse movement, and then started his own The Color Changin’ Click before becoming a solo superstar. “We were bred to learn how to sell records out of our trunk independently and mixtapes were the easiest way to get your music out. “It was either eat or get eaten,” he says. Being an aspiring rapper in Houston at the turn of the century was not necessarily an easy move and because there were no major labels scouring the streets of H-Town at the time, Chamillionaire had to find a way to get noticed. It wasn’t until he grew tired of his job passing out fliers and promoting for clubs that Chamillionaire made a conscious effort to pursue more lucrative vocations. He stocked trucks, held down a number of different positions through a temp agency, and even transported blood and urine for a medical lab. As the eldest child in the household, Chamillionaire had to assume a multitude of parental responsibilities at a young age, which included juggling multiple jobs to help financially support his family. However, they did instill a tireless work ethic into a young Hakeem Seriki, something that ironically has helped him throughout each stage of his rap career. In fact, his parents didn’t even want him to listen to rap. Growing up as a child of four in a strict household run by a Christian mother and a Muslim father, he was not allowed to curse. ![]() “That’s why I made the decision at the beginning stages of The Ultimate Victory to erase it from my vocabulary, long before the Don Imus controversy even started brewing.” Even though he sprinkled the N-word in his rhymes, Chamillionaire was never one to emphasize curse words in his previous material. “It made me say to myself, ‘OK, I’m going to have to do this run again and I don’t want to be subliminally teaching people to say it,” Chamillionaire says. ![]() Each time he said the N-word in any of his songs, many of his white fans would rap along with him. ![]()
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